Darwin's Sacred Cause Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins

Name: Darwin's Sacred Cause Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
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ISBN: 9780226144511

ISBN-10: 0226144518

ISBN-13: 9780226144511

Edition: 2011

Authors: Adrian Desmond, James Moore

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There has always been a mystery surrounding Darwin: How did this quiet, respectable gentleman come to beget one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? It is difficult to overstate what Darwin was risking in publishing his theory of evolution. So it must have been something very powerfula moral fire, as Desmond and Moore put itthat helped propel him. That moral fire, they argue, was a passionate hatred of slavery. In opposition to the apologists for slavery who argued that blacks and whites had originated as separate species, Darwin believed the races belonged to the same human family. Slavery was a "sin," and abolishing it became his "sacred cause." By extending the…

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Unshackling Creation



The Intimate 'Blackamoor'



Racial Numb-Skulls



All Nations of One Blood



Living in Slave Countries



Common Descent: From the Father of Man to the Father of All Mammals



Hybridizing Humans



This Odious Deadly Subject



Domestic Animals and Domestic Institutions



Oh for Shame Agassiz!



The Contamination of Negro Blood



The Secret Science Drifts from its Sacred Cause



Cannibals and the Confederacy in London



The Descent of the Races


Notes


Bibliography


Index